I move:—
"That the Standing Orders be suspended from the 18th to the 23rd May, 1927, inclusive, for the purpose of allowing more than one stage of any Bill to be taken on the same day."
I have set down this notice of motion for the purpose of facilitating the discharge of business by this House for the rest of the Session. As is indicated on the Order Paper, there are a large number of Bills to be dealt with. Most of them are non-controversial, but it would facilitate matters, and, in fact, will be necessary and expedite the business, to take two Stages of some of these Bills, perhaps all of them, on the same day. Under our Standing Orders two clear days' notice is necessary to suspend the Standing Orders, and if we had to suspend the Standing Orders for each of these Bills it would require five or six separate notices of motion to do so, with two clear days' notice between each one. If this motion is carried in the form I have put it down, one motion will be sufficient for all purposes, and the advantage will be that we will be able to arrange our business to suit our own convenience as to the way these Bills will come before us. It is quite obvious that the motion is one which would greatly facilitate the business of this House.